"Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots."

Army, Race, Self

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"Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots."

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"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Army, Challenge, Letters, Newspapers

"Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army."

Jimmy Page, British Musician

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"Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away."

Hayden Fry, American Coach

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"Military police is very timely for our army."

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian Politician

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"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."

James A. Michener, American Novelist

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"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army."

Richard Harding Davis, American Journalist

Army, Night, Sleep

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat

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"We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army."

Gustav Krupp, German Businessman

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"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."

Bill Mauldin, American Cartoonist

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"No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world."

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"Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter."

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"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."

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"Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars."

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"The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars."

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"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient."

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"Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots."

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"The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light."

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"If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be."

Travel

"It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance."

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